This article explains how to create and work on courses. The explained concepts follow the [[../CourseMaterial|course life cycle]] and we refer to technical terms from that description. For creating courses or working at existing ones Artikulate must be configured to [[../BuildAndInstall|work on a course repository]]. If that is done, you can open Artikulate and use the internal course editor as explained in the following.

This article explains how to create and work on courses. The explained concepts follow the [[../CourseMaterial|course life cycle]] and we refer to technical terms from that description. For creating courses or working at existing ones Artikulate must be configured to [[../BuildAndInstall|work on a course repository]]. If that is done, you can open Artikulate and use the internal course editor as explained in the following.

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# Choose one of the units to see the phrases associated with it.

# Choose one of the units to see the phrases associated with it.

# To edit a phrase open it and replace existing English phrase with a translation.

# To edit a phrase open it and replace existing English phrase with a translation.

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# Once you done change the status of the phrase to translated. Sometimes you will also need to change the type of the phrase e.g. from word to expression, etc.

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# Once you are done change the status of the phrase to translated. Sometimes you will also need to change the type of the phrase e.g. from word to expression, etc.

# Accept your changes to this phrase by clicking the accept button on the right side of the phrase.

# Accept your changes to this phrase by clicking the accept button on the right side of the phrase.

Latest revision as of 16:24, 12 July 2013

This article explains how to create and work on courses. The explained concepts follow the course life cycle and we refer to technical terms from that description. For creating courses or working at existing ones Artikulate must be configured to work on a course repository. If that is done, you can open Artikulate and use the internal course editor as explained in the following.

In order to create a new language course, open the course editor (the top-left tool button). Then you have to perform the following steps:

The slide bar with two options will appear and you need to choose “Edit courses” option.

The list of supported languages will appear (as shown on the screenshot above). Choose the language you want to create a new language course for.

Then click on “New course”and you will see a new popup window appearing. Select the appropriate language and the course skeleton for which you would like to create a language course and click OK. (If the language that you would like to add a course for is not supported yet, you will need to create a language phonology first (see below).

Now, you need to select “New Course” that should appear.

The next step it to synchronize the language course with the skeleton. In order to do it you need to choose "Update from Course Prototype".

After this you should see the course with the phrases in English as they are in skeleton. Save your changes by pressing OK button at the top of the screen. You can see that now all the phrases are in English and they are tagged as "unknown". This means that they still need to be translated into appropriate language.

Artikulate uses language specifications (called "phonology") that define lists of available phonemes for a language. In short, a phoneme is a natural sound of a language. (For a detailed explanation see e.g. [1].) We need such a phonology for every language to be able to tag phrases by the sounds that are specific to this language. Using phoneme tags for phrases enables users to select specific phonemes that they want to improve and hence allows a more focused training.

The already available languages can be found in the subdirectory data/languages.

For creating a phonology, the following steps are needed:

create a new XML file in data/languages according to the language name

create phonology

add entry for the new phonology to data/languages/CMakeLists.txt

build and install Artikulate, then run unit tests to check correctness of phonology